PAY FORto pay for something, especially something expensive that you do not want to pay for 付账〔尤指不情愿地为昂贵的东西付钱〕
He ordered drinks and then left me to foot the bill!
他要了酒水,然后让我来付账!
Examples from the Corpus
foot the bill• It will be, as usual, the taxpayer who will be footing the bill.• These two mindlesscadsdecided to bring the girl along to the East and have her foot the bill.• Individuals in dysfunctionalenvironments often be-come dysfunctional in other aspects of their lives, with their organizations ultimately footing the bill.• Sometimes they came alone, sometimes with a man in tow - to foot the bill!• The program asks businesses to foot the bill for dailynewspapers in the classroom.• Her father is footing the bill for lessons, which cost about $ 100 for two hours.• Airlines currently foot the bill for the security systems.• Many customers will have to foot the bill for water meters, which most companies will eventually install.• It has already been argued in some detail that foot the bill is semantically transparent.• If taxpayers footed the bill, those costs might well be higher.